Family Matters: Disciplining Your Child ~ Who is Responsible?

Nurturing and raising a child has always been the responsibility of the parents.

Parenting is hard enough without outside parties meddling and interfering. Especially that part of parenting where disciplining the children is needed.

All disciplinary measures taken by parents are not of a physical nature. But sometimes physical punishment is deemed to be necessary. The parents make that decision and they do so with love (and pain) in their heart, with care and consideration for the child’s well-being, and never with the intent of doing harm and injury to their children. It’s their home! They make the rules and enforce them.

It is my understanding that different countries have different laws and that in some countries physical punishment of a child ~ be it a slap on the hand, a spanking or whatever ~ is ILLEGAL.

Quite frankly I think government officials deciding how a parent should enforce discipline in their own home is IMMORAL.

Isn’t it bad enough some governments allow innocents to be robbed of their childhood and turned into child soldiers?